Nevertheless it is not intended to recommend the adoption of rotation as standard practice.
Flotation/Extended Day
3.7 Flotation is an arrangement whereby utilization of the teaching areas of a school is maximized (see Glossary). It is already practised in many secondary schools and is thought to be the best available method of providing the additional places required in the shortest possible time. Flotation, combined with an extended day system (see Glossary), which permits a staggering of classes throughout the day, could increase school enrolments by up to 50%, without any significant educational disadvantage. It is therefore proposed to introduce this flotation/extended day system into all junior secondary forms in Government schools, but not to senior secondary forms, thereby increasing junior secondary enrolments by up to 50%. The aided schools will also be encouraged to adopt this system.
3.8 Although there was a fair measure of public support for the flotation/extended day system, it is not an ideal solution; but the Government believes that it is far more acceptable than the alternative, which is that a really effective expansion of secondary education should await the completion of the school building programme and the major movement of population to the New Towns. Although the system does not ordinarily increase the number of hours spent in school by an individual child, the Government is aware that it will create staff problems. Every effort must be made to streamline school timetables so as to avoid any substantial increase in teaching hours, and the position of school supervisory staff, whose responsibilities are signifi- cantly increased by larger enrolments, will require review.
3.9 In order to achieve the 1979 target of 100/40% places as a start the flotation/extended day system should be adopted in September 1975 in Forms I-III of Government and aided secondary schools. If it proves possible to increase their enrolments by 50%, the number of places available in Forms I-III of these schools will be 137,000 in September 1976 and 205,000 in September 1979. The balance of places. necessary to make up the target of 100% provision for the age group by September 1979 would be 'bought' in private schools. In 1979 it is likely that about 77,000 places (see Table III) would have to be 'bought', but the actual number of 'bought' places will also depend
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